Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, General
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and General Recommendations Adopted by Human Rights Treaty Bodies, U.N. Doc.
HRI/GEN/1/Rev.6 at 237 (2003).

Equal remuneration for work of equal value

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women,

Recalling International Labour Organisation Convention No. 100
concerning Equal Remuneration for Men and Women Workers for Work of Equal
Value, which has been ratified by a large majority of States parties to the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women,

Recalling also that it has considered 51 initial and 5 second periodic
reports of States parties since 1983,

Considering that although reports of States parties indicate that, even
though the principle of equal remuneration for work of equal value has been
accepted in the legislation of many countries, more remains to be done to
ensure the application of that principle in practice, in order to overcome the
gender-segregation in the labour market,

Recommends to the States parties to the Convention on the Elimination of
All Forms of Discrimination against Women that:

1. In order to implement fully the Convention on the Elimination of
All Forms of Discrimination against Women, those States parties that have not
yet ratified ILO Convention No. 100 should be encouraged to do so;

2. They should consider the study, development and adoption of job
evaluation systems based on gender-neutral criteria that would facilitate the
comparison of the value of those jobs of a different nature, in which women
presently predominate, with those jobs in which men presently predominate, and
they should include the results achieved in their reports to the Committee on
the Elimination of Discrimination against Women;

3. They should support, as far as practicable, the creation of
implementation machinery and encourage the efforts of the parties to
collective agreements, where they apply, to ensure the application of the
principle of equal remuneration for work of equal value.